Posted on 11/29/2023 12:56:37 PM PST by Coronal
A grand jury voted to indict two local officials who delayed the certification of midterm election results in 2022 in Cochise County, Arizona, state Attorney General Kris Mayes said Wednesday.
Cochise County Supervisors Peggy Judd, 61, and Tom Crosby, 64, voted against certifying the county’s election results by the statutory deadline in 2022, after months of casting baseless doubt on the integrity of the election. The county only certified its election results after a court ordered them to do so.
The indictment alleges that Judd and Crosby committed two felonies by conspiring to delay the certification of election results and interfering with the secretary of state’s statewide canvas. Both are Class 5 felonies, which can carry prison terms of 6 months to 2.5 years.
“The repeated attempts to undermine our democracy are unacceptable,” Mayes, a Democrat, said in a statement.
While each state's election laws differ, local officials’ stamp of approval is often required during the election certification process across the country.
If Cochise hadn't certified their results by the statewide deadline and the state had been forced to affirm their election results without including the Republican county's 47,000 votes, Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani would have lost his race for the U.S. House.
The fight in Cochise County began well before the election, as Judd and Crosby cast baseless doubt on the voting machines and sought to do a hand count of all the ballots, something state law doesn't permit. The pair also sued the county elections director, Lisa Marra, who later quit her job after five years running the county's elections.
Judd participated in the Jan. 6th “Stop the Steal” rally in 2021, but denied entering the Capitol or any wrongdoing in an interview with the Tuscon Sentinel. The paper also reported that she has spread conspiracy theories online.
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That’s the thing. A forced certification vote is absolutely meaningless. It is a fraud designed to make things look legit even if they are not. It should actually be a crime for any certifyer to certify something they believe to be false. Actually I believe it already is.
I hope that some lawfirm is willing to work with the defendants to push back on this in court. If Arizona gets away with this then the only thing being truly certified is pure lawlessness in the justice system.
Her name also does not show on aniPad. Why mouse-over? JUST INCLUDE NORMAL TEXT!
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karen
Not if you shout at me, with all due respect.
And I would not post a random photo, rest assured.
McCain ‘Republicans’ won’t do a damn thing.
In 2019, Mayes left the Republican Party and joined the Democratic Party, citing the expansion of Trumpism within the Republican Party.
Now they’re rubbing their noses in it.
Third-world Arizona surrenders to its cartel overlords south of the non-existent border.
In the future, I would say, yes.
Looks like Whitmer.
Timm looks like she has a higher forehead than Whitmer. Same evil look on the face, though.
Indeed.
This is the kind of thing the Soviets did: prosecuting people for not agreeing to follow the party line.
Kris Mayes is Gov. Katie Hobbs go to girl. Abe Hamadeh should be our attorney general because Pinal county ran out of republican ballots then gave out provisional ballots of which Thousands were never counted!!
He and Kari Lake are still looking for the one honest Judge in Arizona that has a spine.
Like Mohave County, they were trying to give election integrity to the people they serve, but Mayes threatened them with arrest and endless persecution.
Has anyone, ANYONE read the indictment?
I thought so.
Here’s the link:
Re: 16 - in doing some research, these two dim bulbs never claimed there was voting machine fraud. They just wanted the machines tested, because.
Good grief.
Well, Peggy Judd is a special kind of stupid.
I called her out for changing the size of an acre (so that one of her buddies could get a zoning exemption that she was otherwise not qualified to receive).
She did a lot of damage while in office.
I think Arizona elections (Maricopa County) have been corrupted for a long time.
I do not think that mclame ever won honestly.
Especially since Keating 5.
That's 100% true because they aren't actually conservatives or republicans. They are poser demonrats.
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